light talk
Example Sentences
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The light talk was punctuated by a few delicately probing questions and long, revelatory answers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2023
The sailors, all from the Philippines, are a little tired-looking and taciturn, but they crowd around Chapman and DeLeon for light talk in English and Tagalog.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
It was mostly fun, light talk radio fare, but it started to get chippy over the question of “Who was the last team to win it all?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2020
They long for the light, talk about the darkness, condemn it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This laughter and light talk are but the signs and symbols of qualities of which your bitter character knows nothing—goodfellowship, kindliness, brave hopefulness, and many things beside.'
From Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College by Arthur Christopher Benson